Registered Orbitz customers receive OrbitzTLC alerts with information on inclement weather and flight status.
The British pilots are being supported by flight director Clive Bailey and weather expert Luc Trullemans in the Flight Control Centre at a Bristol hotel.
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During his demonstration, Gates showed how people who book flights using the Expedia online travel service will automatically receive updated flight and weather information cellular phones enabled with wireless applications protocol.
In contrast, MSN Mobile 2.0 offers real-time, on-demand information such as flight schedules, weather conditions, and sports scores.
When bad weather forces airlines to thin flight schedules, regional airlines get whacked first because carriers would rather used limited landing slots for larger airplanes with more people.
Off the coast of New York, the second aircraft's weather radar failed and the flight was diverted back to JFK. They landed at 9:07 a.m. and waited until the afternoon for a new crew.
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And, because the GPS shows terrain regardless of the weather, it will also reduce flight delays.
He's also constantly adding new services such as e-mail alerts for flight cancelations and bad weather.
When I'm traveling, I can use the Treo to check my flight status and the weather to anticipate delays.
She said the weather was to blame for the flight's cancellation.
Steady advances in automation and robotics are now invisibly encapsulated in navigation, weather avoidance, traffic management, flight controls, safety and communications aids that materially benefit the two-pilot front cabin.
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The weather might not allow for a flight.
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In addition to consumer use, the airlines are planning to use Wi-Fi for onboard medical diagnostics, weather updates, and in-flight equipment monitoring, so ground mechanics arrive at a flight knowing what needs to be serviced.
Typically, travelers are at the mercy of tricky weather--and even more mercurial flight delays or other unforeseen traffic jams.
Airbus Military says it will be capable of operating in any type of climate and weather conditions, providing an in-flight refuelling capability.
Callum had originally planned to make his first solo flight on his birthday, but weather conditions delayed take-off.
The decline in travel because of the recession made airports and the skies less crowded, reducing flight delays and cancellations when bad weather or other problems forced airlines to thin out schedules.
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The Derby City has generally temperate weather and is about a two-hour flight from 75 percent of the US population, and a four-hour flight away from 95 percent of other folks in the nation -- key factors to ensure consistent and speedy deliveries.
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More miracles: On the plane's dashboard is a laptop-size display showing maps, in-flight routes, airspace boundaries and downloadable weather reports.
The last eight scheduled matches in the top flight have been postponed because of the wintry weather.
There are shortcomings: more driving time and, because there are fewer departures and arrivals, forget about catching the "next flight out" if there's inclement weather.
The college said Tuesday that Firestone's flight from Denver to Iowa has been delayed due to weather conditions in Colorado.
Luton Airport said it did not anticipate any further flight cancellations but was still keeping an eye on the weather forecasts.
Flight instruments now warn pilots about potentially hazardous terrain and weather conditions.
Also, he said, people who book a flight just a day or two in advance should look at weather forecasts.
They cannot perform the kinds of maneuvers typical of manned tactical aircraft, and their flight routes are usually planned carefully with an eye to local weather conditions.
Fearing that my Wednesday, February 2nd flight out of St Louis would be canceled due to inclement weather and wanting to arrive in North Texas in a timely fashion, I had a colleague suggest that I take the train.
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Flight 447 was passing through an area prone to volatile and dangerous weather known as the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone when it went down.
But the weather cleared enough for him and his delegation to make the hour-long flight across Jordan's rugged landscape, arriving in Petra under bright sunshine.
He points out that the airlines do after all have to consider the possibility of airport congestion, poor weather conditions, the slot times given to them by the airports, and whether the flight will feed into other flights.
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